A wonderful new world
at secondary school i found myself in a new and wonderful
world. For the first time i saw a laboratory and we started to learn some real
science. To begin with, i was completely puzzled by the biology classes but
soon the subject came to have a great fascination for me. I had never been good
at mathematics but at munali i had a good teacher and the subject soon lost it
terrors so that when we took the final examination i came second in the class.
History had always been my best subject but for some reason i did not do well
in it, perhaps because it was all southafrican history that we had to study.
English literature i came to love but i did badly in the grammar paper at the
end of my course.
we lived a full
and interesting life at munali. It was by no means all work and study in the
classroom. I immediately found myself in the football team and we had many
exciting and some very rough matches with local teams. I still carry on my leg
a large scar, where i was injured by the boot of one of the lusaka
"Tigers". Great emphasis was laid on athletics and ran for my house
in the mile and the half-mile. In my second year, i led my house to victory in
the interhouse activities competition although i nearly caused my house to lose
the cup by my performance in the mile race. I led the field in the first and
second lap but i must have started out at far too fast a pace because i was
soon lagging far behind. Even though i was last, I ran the race to end and when
i recieved the house trophy, the principal commended me.
during my second
year, i was captain of my house with a small room to myself at the end of the
dormitory. Many of the younger boys in the first year would come and hide in my
room when ragging was in progress, and i did all i could do to protect them and
discouraged any form of bullying in my own dormitory. I had learnt the value of
stirct discipline from my parents and was determined to have the same kind of
discipline in the school during the week i was duty prefect. The boys soon
discovered that during my week on duty there were no detentions to be worked
off on saturday. I also became quite porpular with the housemaster and techers
who rarely had to punish anyone during my duty period.
my dream,my hardwork. |
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